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Daily Archives: November 18, 2016

Guyana’s Commissioner of Information, Charles Ramson Snr. is about to be called to account for his performance, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said Friday. “I’m not aware that this office has done anything really so being pleased is very subjective. There is a law and the Commissioner of Information is bound by that law to carry out certain functions including receiving complaints and ...

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Friday said the draft law to facilitate a pension and benefits to former Prime Minister, Hamilton Green probably should not have named him but left open for all current and future ex-prime ministers. “It may be an issue that we may want to re-look as to why it was the Hamilton Green pension bill and ...

by Derwayne Wills A 2013 ruling by then-Chief Justice Ian Chang that cross-dressing is only a crime once done for an “improper purpose” has left appellants, McEwan and others, seeking confirmation of what constitutes an “improper purpose.” In the Court of Appeal this morning, Chancellor Carl Singh; Chief Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards; and Justice Brassington Reynolds heard arguments from Attorneys Dr ...

Guyana is preparing the legislative and budgetary groundwork for constitutional reform to begin next year, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said Friday. He told a news briefing at his Alliance For Change (AFC) headquarters that he has asked for approximately GYD$80 million to be set aside in the 2017 National Budget to fund the establishment of a secretariat and the holding ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall Here we go again. Reports are that the two private contractors, Puran Brothers and Cevons Waster Management, are uttering clear warnings that they would have no choice but to discontinue garbage collection work on behalf of City Hall. It is the usual reason, which needs no introduction: they are owed hundreds of millions, ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall I observe that the opposition has seen the light after some two decades of slackness and dullness. Finally, it has replaced its printed media signature with not another aged uninspiring presence; but an unusual, if not unholy troika. Their duty is to preach the party’s apocryphal gospels to the Guyanese multitude via the ...